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"Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t."
— Thomas A. Edison

21 people liked it

"Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration."
— Thomas A. Edison

60 people liked it

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. "
— Thomas A. Edison

104 people liked it

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
— Jane Austen

tags: friends, humor, people
2,269 people liked it

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: books, classic, humor
5,688 people liked it

"The time to relax is when you don't have time for it."
— Sydney J. Harris

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"You don't need to take a persons advice to make him feel good, just ask him for it."
— Laurence J. Peter

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"The TEN Commandments are not prefaced with "If you're in the mood"."
— Laura Schlessinger

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"Live your life the way you
Want Your kids to live theirs."
— Michael First

2 people liked it

"Live so your Friends can defend you,
But never have to."
— Arnold H. Glasow

3 people liked it

"Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain hes not the man she married?"
— Barbra Streisand

tags: husbands, marriage, men, wives, women
69 people liked it

"What I'm looking for is a Blessing NOT in disguise!"
— Kitty O'Neil

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"To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: free-speech
69 people liked it

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
— John Wooden

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"Being truthful when you know it will cost you , Is the true test of honesty."
— Dave Weinbaum

6 people liked it

"You will only be remembered for two things: the problems you solve, or the ones you create."
— Mike Murdock

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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
— Mark Twain

tags: education
3,197 people liked it

"Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it."
— Mark Twain

tags: truth
1,941 people liked it

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
16,504 people liked it

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."
— Albert Einstein

812 people liked it

"Love is a better master than duty."
— Albert Einstein

tags: love
350 people liked it

"Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows."
— Helen Keller

103 people liked it

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart"
— Helen Keller

tags: emotions, feelings
819 people liked it

"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do."
— Edward Everett Hale

tags: making-a-difference
79 people liked it

"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein."
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

430 people liked it

"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."
— Louisa May Alcott

173 people liked it

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved."
— Helen Keller

tags: character
136 people liked it

"She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain."
— Louisa May Alcott (Work: A Story of Experience)

tags: books
856 people liked it

"I ask not for any crown
But that which all may win;
Nor try to conquer any world
Except the one within."
— Louisa May Alcott

tags: inspiration, wisdom
131 people liked it

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."
— Louisa May Alcott (Little Women)

tags: inspirational, ship, storms
231 people liked it

"If we are all alive ten years hence, let's meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we are then than now."
— Louisa May Alcott (Little Women)

18 people liked it

"Life is like college; may I graduate and earn some honors."
— Louisa May Alcott

24 people liked it

"Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary."
— Louisa May Alcott

tags: friendship
273 people liked it

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
— Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
9,691 people liked it

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain

tags: literacy
6,276 people liked it

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, procrastination
5,766 people liked it

"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
— Mark Twain

tags: truth
2,286 people liked it

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
— Mark Twain

tags: action, actions, disappointed, disappointment, discover, dream, dreams, explore, sail
8,033 people liked it

"Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away."
— Robert Maynard Hutchins

tags: exercise, humor, laziness
6,025 people liked it

"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, health, humor, misprints
2,459 people liked it

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor
2,074 people liked it

"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said 'I don't know'."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, knowledge
1,492 people liked it

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, friends, friendship, life
4,001 people liked it

"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, truth
1,135 people liked it

"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."
— Mark Twain

51 people liked it

"A faithful friend is a strong defense;
And he that hath found him hath found a treasure."
— Louisa May Alcott

tags: friendship
138 people liked it

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